Desperate times indeed for ANC to call on Mbeki
DESPERATE times indeed call for desperate measures. This couldn’t be more fitting than the ANC wanting, well, to recall one Mvuyelwa Thabo Mbeki from the national political grave and rescue it in that very important province called Gauteng come next year’s general elections.
That province is very important to the movement of uncle Gwede Mantashe and he of Nkandla because if the said movement was to lose it to the DA of young Mmusi Maimane, voluptuous Lindiwe Mazibuko and ma’am Helen Zille then the movement is in some serious trouble.
To stop this, according to the ANC, will require a well read, awkwardly short and unifying hand of one Thabo Mbeki of the two Sudans. This Thabo of the two Sudans is seen, and very properly so, as a sophisticated cadre who can lure an already very questioning group of people called the middle class.
A politically correct way of saying clever blacks or enlightened non-whites.
Seeing that the all-time giggling champion of Nkandla has already insulted this group some time ago it was therefore only too revolutionary that the powers that be in Gauteng resorted to a very desperate measure, that of asking for Mvuyelwa’s hand of assistance. But does the movement think Mbeki is stupid enough to fall for its charms after humiliating him so spectacularly when he was flushed from government like a smelly poo poo?
This move by the movement shows desperation, and fittingly so. With the DA putting its weight behind its highly motivated clever black for that very important province one understands why the powers that be in Gauteng may be having sleepless nights.
The reason is because there are some really sophisticated people in that province who have sophisticated questions that need sophisticated answers. These people are not for revolutionary songs and food parcels.
They dine out and read sophisticated novels and newspapers, they are on Twitter and speak good English. These people are not Jacob Zuma’s audience.
These people are Mvuyelwa’s audience and the ANC is aware of that. Mvuyelwa cannot sing a song unless that song was retrieved from his favourite poem.
Mvuyelwa cannot dance unless he’s allowed to do so in his head as he sips on some imported spirit, relaxed in his study. This is Mvuyelwa for you, not Msholozi who can sing and dance at the drop of a hat.
So, the ANC realises the dilemma it’s in where Gauteng is concerned. Though this strategy would work wonders on paper only, it also tells of an ANC that clearly doesn’t have confidence in the man who cleaned up the votes in its last elective conference in Mangaung.
What is the ANC saying of the president of the nation? That there are unsuspecting masses that he can mesmerise in song and dance, and an en- lightened group he can’t? Is this a half package president and not a national leader the country can rely on as a father of the nation?
If so, then the ANC needs to do the noble thing of calling the father of the multiples to head office and simply say, “Cadre, we are sorry but we have little faith in you going forward”. Just like they did with Mvuyelwa of eMbewuleni in the rural Transkei. But clearly this isn’t going to happen if not only in my dreams.
But also and very clearly the self important smart midget is not going to fall for this trap, or rubbish.
So, for the ANC to resort to this trick simply tells of a party that sees it’s in the dark and is running out of ideas.
I’d wish for Mbeki just to relax somewhere in Sudan, any of the two where he’s clearly more accepted for his calm and sometimes arrogant intellect. Zuma himself needs to go to all provinces, not just the poor and sometimes unquestioning likes of Limpopo and the Eastern Cape, and tell everyone why he’s only a good dancer, singer and giggler but not capable of freeing them from the misery of poverty.
He needs to go to these provinces and answer when they ask him why Nkandla today is famous for a private resort they can’t access.
Imagine what the smart one would say about Nkandla when during his term he lived so modestly, but his successor went on to own a controversial resort.